March 2010

Double-talking politicians and the health care bill

March 23, 2010 Random Thoughts

After reading this article on MSNBC, it struck me that all this jib-jab coming from the opposition to the health care bill that Obama is introducing is nothing but double-talk from those that can’t see past their own noses but continue to try to push their own agendas regardless of the what happens to America’s [...]

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Setting up a local instance of an existing production site using WampServer

March 23, 2010 Build a website

Making changes and upgrading your site while people are hitting it can give a bad impression to your visitors.  They might hit errors while you try to work out some new functionality, or perhaps make the site completely unusable.  The best way to make your changes without impacting your visitors is to do it offline, [...]

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United States used car database for sale

March 21, 2010 Make Money
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I have built a database with over 23,000 records of vehicles that were sold in the United States since 1896 to 2012. The data was built by hand and took a lot of effort to compile, and it should help some people get a jump-start on any effort that will require the year, make and [...]

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Lost t-shirt designs and a contest

March 18, 2010 Social Networking

I want to direct your attention over to GritFX.com, where there is a Lost contest currently under-way with a lot of excellent prizes.  The prizes are a collection of DVD packs that include all 5 seasons that were made so far, a tee-shirt (makes sense since that is what GritFX does, right?), and finally 5 [...]

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Scaling back my online presence

March 16, 2010 Random Thoughts

The social web can be a lot of fun.  There’s Facebook, Twitter, and countless others that you could spend an inordinate amount of your time with, and in the end what do you get from it? Maybe you meet new people that become your friends, or perhaps you find new business partners or customers.  That’s [...]

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Toyota – Moving Forward

March 12, 2010 Amusing

There isn’t much else to say…

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CSS and the Yahoo YUI 2 Reset CSS

March 11, 2010 Web Development Tips

While searching around the Internet for the best way to style a certain something, I happened upon the YUI2 Reset CSS.  The Reset CSS’s main goal is to help alleviate some of the problems that come from trying to do CSS that works for as many browsers as possible. The problem web developers and designers [...]

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How to easily inflate your RSS subscriber numbers with FriendFeed

March 8, 2010 Social Networking

I remember when I started blogging a few years ago and thinking about what it will be like when I get a subscriber. It seems that you can wire your feed up with FriendFeed and get a large increase in your subscriber numbers.  Each one of your friends there will count as a subscriber in [...]

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Do people hunt down dofollow blogs just to leave comments?

March 4, 2010 Link Building

As you are probably aware, I made my blog DoFollow recently, and I’ve noticed a number of things that are different about the comments I’ve been receiving lately as a result of the change.  You only need look at some of the recent comments I’ve approved to notice the difference. I wrote a post a [...]

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Free WordPress consulting and installation service with Dreamhost sign-up

March 3, 2010 Blogging Help & Tips

Want to start blogging? Want to try to make a little money while you’re at it but you don’t know where to begin? I’m more than willing to help you out, and I’ll even chip in my web development talents and insights for free. That’s right, you get me, a seasoned, well established web developer [...]

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